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  2. Although said era/style of jazz ain't a focus of mine necessarily, this platter is a beloved one : Buster Bailey "All About Memphis" (Felsted) 1958 ....
  3. Thanks! These are some great suggestions. Also promoted me to listen to that Barbara Dane record again. Not really jazz but what a great record. I think that I hadn't heard of it until around 4 years ago when I saw it flagged up on Twitter. Thank you. Some great stuff. That George Wein record is one I had meant to check out and it is nice to see that it is now streamable. I think what these posts show is that the wider revival / trad movement is quite a diverse place. There's a wide range of different styles grouped under the same umbrella. Nice. On the records front, do you have anything you'd recommend. Either from these performers or more generally. As I said up front, I'm also interested in where this music went after the air goes out of the movement in roughly the mid sixties (is there a date that is often pointed to, like 1947 for big bands?). It seems like there was a sort of revival of the revival sometimes in the 70s and 80s, but I know next to nothing about it.
  4. I'll take: Eddie Higgins $25 - It’s Magic Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (2 CDs in a single jewel case)
  5. what a tragic story. I never knew how he died, and was hoping it was not the usual musician's drug trajectory story. Now he's out there with Eddie Costa and Dave Lambert and Clifford Brown, just for starters.
  6. Mat Maneri’s Quartet was off the chain last night. 2 full sets. Stunning. playing on 4/7 in Philly Nasheet Waits is insanely great especially when he elevates to an intensity one didn’t know existed. This happened earlier this year in a group with Darius Jones. Recently also saw him with Peter Evans & Brian Marsella. That night he played a sequence on brushes that was sublime and stunning.
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  8. When someone agrees with me, I start to think I'm not insane.
  9. Excellent Cover Art by Miriam Sweeney and Steve Stacey (the later being responsible inter alias for the Manic Street Preachers art work) ....
  10. A great start of an excellent series ....
  11. Grand Belial's Key – Goat Of A Thousand Young / Triumph Of The Hordes ... 2017 ... also here a cat as an extra!
  12. Phil Woods, Tom Harrell “The Jazz Masters” Groove Merchant/Solid Records Japan cd Just in from Japan, these recent Groove Merchant reissues sound really good, and I’ve always enjoyed this band. Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Phil Woods Bass – Steve Gilmore Drums, Producer – Bill Goodwin Piano – Hal Galper Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Tom Harrell
  13. Haven’t enjoyed this cd in a while. I was thinking of my late first wife Helen, and that led me to think of listening to Helen Merrill, and I saw this one, which was sitting neglected on a shelf a long time. Helen Merrill featuring Stan Getz “Just Friends” Emarcy cd That's correct, I just don't have the impression any particular one was a breakout hit in sales.
  14. I guess this problem of "reliabilty" exists with any such discussion platforms. When I read the Mercury discussion I was under the impression everything they stated boiled down to "educated guesses". But like I said, I know too little about this specific series to judge it at all. At any rate and on a more general level, my impression is that whatever the Japanese released and reissued beyond their own country certainly was aimed at the USA in the very first place. And all other target coutnries were afterthoughts. At least from the Japanese point of view. So, looking at them from over here, I've understood Japanese pressings always as being typical "imports" (that found their way here more or less haphazardly and strictly on the initiative of individual importers). But I'd bet ther always are exceptions to any rule anyone comes up with about pressings, releases, exports/imports, etc., so in the end it all remains "educated guesses". I am not worried too much about ths kind of "fuzziness" in these discussions anymore. I've come across the same kind of discussions on other forums in different hobby areas where you get involved once you have gathered substantial knowledge on the subject matter. But it almost always turns out that the more you learn the more you realize that there are things you don't know 100% for sure. So in most cases I'm past working myself into a temper ... 😁 At any rate, I think, beyond my use of Discogs for checks on specific releases I think I might check the discussion sites a bit more often too. Might be fun ... Although (judging by these Mercury discussions) I guess they remain more civilized than on the Hoffman forum ... 😁
  15. Nice one, must dig my copy out , it's been a while
  16. Aretha Franklin – What You See Is What You Sweat ... 1991
  17. Saw several of those shows, too. These two back to back was an astounding 2 hours of music! Myra Melford's Fire and Water: Back at the Bijou and featured some of the best live playing I've heard from Mary Halvorson. [Agreed about Mary's performance! Especially the back and forth improv she had with the drummer, Leslie Mok.] Dave Holland Quartet: Great set. Very impressed with pianist Kris Davis in this set. Also with Jaleel Shaw. [Agreed again. The Tony Williams-like intensity of Nasheet Waits was astounding, as well. Fortunately I get to see them again at SFJAZZ in May.] Friday at SFJAZZ RAVI COLTRANE: PHAROAH SANDERS TRIBUTE W/ JOE LOVANO, TOMOKI SANDERS, DAVID VIRELLES, DEZRON DOUGLAS, & JOHNATHAN BLAKE
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